Hello, I've started hacking up an amanda.conf file, and as I'm reading, I'm getting worried. It seems that amanda wants a new tape every day if I'm doing daily backups. This presents a problem. I have a single 70GB drive, no changer, and the systems being backed up are at a remote location. At most I can have someone there once a week to change tapes.
Capacity is not a problem; there will be less than a few hundred MB of change per day, and an initial full dump of all 11 machines should come in under 5-10GB. So the tape doesn't "need" to be changed out because it's getting full... I know this is not optimal, but there's no budget for an AIT changer at this time (they look to be around $5-$8K - the drive was $500)... Thanks, Charles